Clothes-tongs.



P. & J. CHORVATH.

CLOTHES TONGS.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 22. I915.

1,158,637. Patented Nov. 2, 1915-.

OmW1 To all whom it may concern PAUL cnonva'rnnnn JOZEE ononvnrn, or TAREN'IUM, PENNSYLVANIA.

oLorHns-rones.

Be it known that we, (1) PAUL Cnouviirrr and (2) JozEr CHORVATH, a subject 1(1) of the King of Hungary and (2) a citizen of the United States, residing at Tarentum, in i the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Tongs, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in clothes tongs.

An object of the present invention is to provide a device especially adapted for laundry purposes, in which clothes or articles within a wash boiler or cleaning receptacle may be readily handled and manipulated without danger of the attendant burning or scalding ones hands.

A further object of the invention is to provide a lifting device for clothes within a wash boiler including an automatic gripping head and a spring pressed handle for controlling the lifting head, the same to be of comparatively simple construction involving few working parts and a device that is inexpensive to manufacture.

With these general objects in view and others that will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and then claimed.

In the drawing forming a part of this application and in which like designating characters refer to corresponding parts throughout the several views: F igurel is a side elevational view of the clothes tongs built in accordance with the present invention, partly broken away and partly shown in section better to illustrate the operation of the device. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same, partly broken away and partly shown in section, and Figs. 3, 4 and 5 are sectional views taken on lines-III III, IVIV and VV respectively of Figs. 1 and 2.

Referring more in detail to the accompanying drawing, the reference numeral 10 designates the main body portion of the as vice in the form of a tube or barrel, the

inner end of which is increased in cross sec' tional area to provide a chamber casing 11 opening at one side thereof, as at 12, and

closed by the side plate 13 secured in position by fastening screws 14 entering the side Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 2, 1915..

Application filed. July 22, 1915'. Serial No. 41,366.

walls-of the chamber casing 11. A longitudinalbo-re 15 is provided in the barrel portion 10 and communicates at its rear end with the chamber casing 11, while the outer end of the bore opens atthc outer end of the barrel. The inner end of the chamber casing 11 is partially closed by the end wall 16 and is provided with a central opening 17 for purposes to be laterdescribed. A pair of rearwarcllyprojecting arms 18 and 19 are carried by the end wall 16 of the chamber casing, while the arm 18 is angularly bent at its end to provide a handle 20. An angularly depending arm 21 is carried by the outer end of the barrel l0 and is provided on the free end thereof with a gripping head 22, cooperating with a second gripping head to be later described. Slidably mounted within the barrel 10 and chamber casing 11 is a rod 23-normally projecting from the outer end of the barrel 10 as at 24, angularly bent as at 25 and provided on the end thereof with a gripping head 26. A knuckle plate 27 is secure ,by means of a set screw or other fastening device 28 to the head 26 so that articles to be gripped by the cooperating heads 22 and 26 will not slip therefrom. The innenend of the rod 23 extends within the chamber casing 11 and has a stepped connection 29 with a second handle 30, a rectangular portion 31 being provided on the handle 30 and angularly disposed relative thereto, the rectangular portion adapted to be positioned between the rearwardly extending arms 18 and 19 to prevent relative rotary movements of the two handles 20 and 30. A compression coil spring 32 is mounted within the chamber casing 12 and surrounds the rod 23, the said spring engaging at one of its ends the end wall 16 of the chamber casing and engaging at its other end a cross pin 33 carried by the rod 23.

' From the above detailed description of the device, it is believed that the operation thereof will be readily apparent, it being noted that the gripping heads 22 and 26 and the operating handles 20 and 30 are located 26 are moved into closer relationship and into engagement with desired articles. When pressure on the handle 80 is released, the spring 32 Will exert its force to move the rod 23 and head 26 in an outward direction to separate the gripping heads and restore the device to its normally separated posi parting from the spirit and scope of 'the invention as claimed.

What We claim as new is Gripping tongs including a barrel having a chambered casing, a handle carried by the inner end of thecasing, a gripping head car- Copies of this patent niay be obtained for ried by the oiiter end ofthe oasing, a rod slidably mounted Within the barrel and casing, a spring ithin the casingsnrrounding the rod, a cross pin carried by the rod adapted to engage one end of the spring, the other end of the spring engaging the inner end of the casing, an operating handle carried by the inner end of the rod, and a gripping head carried by the outer end of the rod,

the gripping heads being cooperatively positioned and in alinement vith the operating handles on one side of the barrel In testimony whereof We aflix our 'signa- V tures. p

PAUL CHORVATH..

,JOZEF OHORVATH;

'Witnesses: l .7

OMER J. MANANDISE, LOUIS A. TRAYCIK.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

